adscititious

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The girls ticked off aquarellist, staphylococcic, gracilescent, adscititious, eupraxia, argillaceous, autochthan and umbelliferous.

From Time Magazine Archive

We rob them of their amusing but adscititious qualities; we make them utterly uninteresting to precisely 99.99 per cent. of our fellow-creatures; and ourselves we make unpopular.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive

He that shall solicit the favour of his patron by praising him for qualities which he can find in himself, will be defeated by the more daring panegyrist who enriches him with adscititious excellence.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

All notice, and some enjoy, this adscititious literary overtone.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive

Those who were not satisfied with the dead-body theory contented themselves, like Dr. More, with that of "adscititious particles," which has, to be sure, a more metaphysical and scholastic flavor about it.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell